Miley, Marion (c. 1914–1941)

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Miley, Marion (c. 1914–1941)

American golfer. Born Marion Miley c. 1914 in Danvers, MA; killed by intruders who broke into her mother's Lexington Country Club apartment, Sept, 28, 1941, in Lexington, KY; dau. of Elsie Ego Miley (who was also shot, and died Oct 1, 1941).

Won the Women's Western Amateur (1935, 1937); won the Trans-Mississippi Amateur (1935–36) and the Southern Amateur (1938–39).

See also William J. Buchanan, Execution Eve (New Horizon, 1993).